Diary of a Criminal Investigator-Chapter 371: Utter Tragedy

"Mom and Dad, I’m sorry. By the time you read this letter, I should already be gone from this world."

"...I love you so much, but every day you’re either fighting or arguing. You never pay attention to me; you only care about sending me to tutoring schools and piano schools..."

"Teacher Chen Gang has been very kind to me. When you don’t come to pick me up, it’s always him. When you don’t take me out to play, he’s the one who does..."

"I hope you won’t make things difficult for him..."

"I’m pregnant. I know you would certainly beat me to death..."

"Chen Gang... I’m so sorry, I can’t marry you anymore. See you in the next life!"

"Zhang Xiao, my last words."

Ah!

In the dormitory, it was the heart-wrenching cries of Zhang Xiao’s parents.

In the Crime Scene Investigation office, with the footprint and fingerprint samples of Li Hui brought by Ren Qiang, Lu Chuan quickly completed the comparison.

In the vast sea of people, finding a target individual from a fingerprint database of hundreds of thousands or millions is very difficult.

However, if you are comparing photos face-to-face with the individual, even if there are major changes in age and facial features, there will still be characteristic points retained.

Li Hui was confirmed as the person who appeared on the rooftop terrace with Zhang Xiao.

Over there, Chen Gang went mad when he learned of Zhang Xiao’s suicide by jumping off the building.

He was only four years older than Zhang Xiao.

To him, they were genuinely in love.

Moreover, Zhang Xiao was carrying his child.

Besides, he did not know about this matter in advance.

Since this was not a criminal case, the subsequent case had nothing to do with the Criminal Investigation Team.

As for civil compensation, it was certainly forthcoming.

Firstly, Old Factory Street High School had an inescapable responsibility for Zhang Xiao’s death.

Of course, the school might feel quite wronged, as all aspects of the school’s management were aimed at improving students’ academic performance.

However, they neglected students’ psychological education, and they did not fulfill their obligation in the safety assurance of hardware facilities. How could students just go up to the rooftop terrace?

There should have been some protective measures, but the school did not implement them.

Crime Scene Investigation office.

"I heard Zhang Xiao’s parents have sued the school, as well as Chen Gang."

Yang Sen felt deeply moved; his son had just finished the college entrance exams and hadn’t filled in his applications yet.

Even he was now reflecting on whether he had been too harsh on his child.

"No matter what, these parents lost their daughter who they raised for over a decade."

As a father, Old Bai could empathize immensely: "By the way, Old Yang, is your son dating anyone?"

"Um... probably not?"

He genuinely didn’t know.

Lu Chuan was watering the flamingo-lily. Although it hadn’t been that long since he graduated from high school, it always felt like a very distant memory.

In fact, in Lu Chuan’s recollections, his high school memories were somewhat blurred, leaving only some particularly deep fragments. The rest was about hardships, especially during the third year, where studying was particularly exhausting yet numb.

It was like losing his soul that year, becoming like a machine learning tirelessly over and over again.

Therefore, Lu Chuan didn’t join the old folks’ conversation but just listened quietly on the side.

Clearly, Liu Guodong and the others didn’t want to let Lu Chuan off the hook.

"Lu, did you date anyone in high school?"

Lu Chuan shook his head like a rattle: "No, absolutely not. I was particularly innocent back then."

"During high school, I wasn’t particularly savvy in the first and second year; come the third year, it was all about burying my head in studies. Back then, there were exams all the time with no personal time at all."

In terms of exams, Lu Chuan’s memories were more vivid.

Back in the day, there was a small test every three days, a big test every five days, and a full mock test every half a month.

The entire third year seemed to be spent in examinations.

June 23rd. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

The cases in the action team recently were mostly wrapped up.

Lu Chuan had slacked off a few days, relieving himself from the tense state of recent days completely.

In his free time, he did a few DNA paternity tests with Liu Guodong, the results were rather unexpected, none turned out to be biological.

These days, anyone who comes for this kind of test usually has doubts.

For example, a child’s eyes don’t look like the father’s, but like Old Wang next door.

Or the hair’s curliness, the size of the nose, the shape of the ears, etc.

From the standpoint of genetics, a child inherits half the genes from each parent and should inevitably resemble one of them in some traits.

Characteristics like the mouth, eyes, ears, and nose, if these don’t resemble either parent...

Then it’s time to be cautious.

Extremely cautious.

After a routine DNA paternity test, a divorce case might follow.

Events always come one after another, like the unending tides of the sea.

At the cinema, having just watched an animated movie, Lu Chuan and Forensic Doctor Shen walked out hand in hand, all smiles.

"What should we eat tonight?"

"I want... hmm... egg tarts!"

"Okay, let’s head for some egg tarts!"

On the way, Forensic Doctor Shen was eagerly licking an ice cream cone from Mixue Bingcheng.

"How did Brother Yang’s kid do on their college entrance exam?"

Today was June 23rd, the day when college entrance exam results were released, and the team’s discussion was all about the exam results of several kids.

"Quite good, I heard from Old Yang that they scored over 620, good enough for many great schools."

"Over 620?"

Shen Yan was slightly surprised; such a score was not just good, it was excellent.

Her own college entrance exam score was only slightly higher, and Lu Chuan’s was about the same back then.

"With that score, getting into Public Security University is definitely possible; does the kid have any plans?"

Besides the scores, the team’s primary discussion was about which universities the kids were applying to, especially whether they were applying to Public Security University or police schools.

Good scores could get into Public Security University, while moderate scores could apply to provincial police schools.

These schools were great choices for those aspiring to become police officers.

Besides, several colleagues came to Lu Chuan privately.

Their children were about to graduate from university, and they inquired privately about Qiangsheng Group’s recruitment criteria.

Although Qiangsheng Group is a private enterprise, not the legendary iron rice bowl, its reputation in Haizhou City is exceedingly prestigious.

Many people aimed to work at Qiangsheng Group.

To Lu Chuan, this was a trivial matter. Qiangsheng Group had numerous industries, recruiting a lot of graduates every year.

Even those who majored in performing arts could be arranged into production companies.

But Lu Chuan discussed this only with the parties involved and didn’t mention it to anyone else.

This was one of the key reasons Lu Chuan maintained a good rapport within the Criminal Investigation Team.

After all, Lu Chuan had the most contact with the outside world compared to the entire team, standing with a mighty Qiangsheng Group as his backup.

Lu Chuan was fully aware of this fact, and he was willing to help his colleagues.

Qiangsheng Group recruited annually, and hiring family from the Criminal Investigation Team was advantageous for the group.

Kids educated by police officers might not all excel in studies, but most had upright moral standards.

That was a good thing indeed.